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Stop Rwanda flights- email AirTanker

April 15, 2024 /
Almost 24,000 people have now emailed AirTanker, urging the company not to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda. Will you join them? Use the link below: https://secure.freedomfromtorture.org/page/147528/action/1?chain&ea.tracking.id=FA_Email_share After thousands of protesters
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Fresh blow to rehousing of asylum seekers

April 10, 2024 /
RAF Scampton, a UK military base due to accommodate up to 2,000 asylum seekers  has been found to be contaminated with ground gases and unexploded ordnance, according to government documents.
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Key asks for MPs and election candidates

April 10, 2024 /
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has produced a very useful list of suggestions for MPs and election candidates. “During this election we can ask MPs and voters to
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Families in Gaza seeking family reunion win legal case against the home office

April 10, 2024 / ,
A judge has ruled that the home office’s insistence on biometric data, including fingerprints and photos, from Gazans seeking family reunion amounts to “disproportionate interference” in their right to family
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Criticism mounts over Rwanda scheme

April 10, 2024 /
Doubts are growing over the feasibility of the government’s Rwanda plan, despite Rishi Sunak’s continued backing for the project. A recent foreign office report has revealed the extreme poverty and
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Plan to move refugees from hotels will cost millions more, say auditors

March 26, 2024 / ,
The National Audit Office has revealed that plans to remove refugees to the Bibby Stockholm, two former RAF bases, Scampton and Wethersfield, and former student accommodation in Huddersfield could eventually
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33,085 asylum seekers threatened with deportation to Rwanda

March 26, 2024 / ,
Asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK by irregular means like small boats since 20th July 2023 will not have their claims examined. Under the Illegal Migration Act, they
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MPs vote down Lords’ amendments to the Rwanda deportation bill.

March 19, 2024 /
19.3.2024. The House of Commons voted by a large majority against the 10 amendments to the safety of Rwanda (asylum and immigration ) bill, which is supposed to overrule the
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Huge defeat in the Lords for the government’s Rwanda bill as costs soar

March 5, 2024 /
Members of the Lords have savaged the government’s latest Rwanda bill, which seeks to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling that the country is unsafe for refugees.   By 274 votes
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What do we hope for, after the 2024 election? Quakers suggest some changes

February 13, 2024 /
A paper produced by the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network , QARN, suggests some important changes to the way we treat refugees. It urges people to email election candidates with
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Looking for practical help?

For further information and support, try these websites:

Safe Passage is concerned with refugee and asylum-seeking children:

The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network:

There are also many local groups and councils offering specific support to hosts of Ukranians and other refugees.

In Bournemouth, for instance, the International Care Network supports refugees and asylum seekers in the Bournemouth/Poole area, including language classes and ‘befriending’ schemes.

In north-west London, Families4Peace is offering support to Ukranian refugees and their hosts.

About me

I am a writer and former journalist who volunteers with a refugee charity.

I am convinced that, as a country, we need to welcome refugees. My inspiration comes from my godmother, Trudi Eulenburg, who was granted shelter in the UK from Nazi Germany as a teenager in 1939.

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